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December 30, 2008
Plant Closures in Hundreds, Job Cuts in Thousands, as Industry Copes With Recession
BASF, Dow and DuPont, the world’s three largest chemical companies, have shuttered, idled or cut production at some 460 plants, according a review of recent news in CW. Other...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/plastics/polypropylene/16125.html
December 18, 2008
Ashland Sells Stake in FiberVisions, May Rework Metal Casting jv
Ashland has sold its 33.5% stake in FiberVisions to its partner in the joint venture, private equity firm Snow Phipps (New York). The transaction was worth $7 million. Ashland says it...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/plastics/polypropylene/15986.html
December 16, 2008
Sunoco to Sell Chemical Business
Sunoco says it is pursuing the sale of its chemical business, a leading U.S. producer of polypropylene and phenol. Sunoco officials confirmed plans for a possible sale of the business...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/plastics/polypropylene/15953.html
December 15, 2008
Dubai to Trade Plastics Futures
The Dubai Gold & Commodities Exchange (DGCX) says it will launch plastics futures contracts on February 5...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/plastics/polypropylene/15901.html
November 24, 2008
Formosa Restarts PP Plant
Formosa Plastics says it will restart its polypropylene (PP) plant at...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/plastics/polypropylene/15545.html
November 24, 2008
Fire Shuts Mitsubishi Plant
Mitsubishi Chemical says it halted operations at its Mizushima, Japan...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/plastics/polypropylene/15547.html
November 17, 2008
Ineos Shutters Two U.S. Polypropylene Units
Ineos Olefins & Polymers USA says it intends to shut down two polypropylene (PP) bulk phase units at La Porte, TX by early 2009. The closure represents about 520 million lb/year of...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/plastics/polypropylene/15356.html
November 17, 2008
Reliance Idles Polyester Fiber and Petrochemical Units
Reliance Industries has permanently closed five of the seven plants at the company’s Patalganga, India polyester fiber and petrochemical complex due to deteriorating market...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/plastics/polypropylene/15386.html
November 17, 2008
Sabic, APCC Start Saudi PP Projects
Sabic says it has started operations at the world’s single-largest polypropylene (PP) train at Al-Jubail, Saudi Arabia. The...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/plastics/polypropylene/15410.html
November 10, 2008
LyondellBasell Launches Plasticizers
LyondellBasell Industries says it has launched a range of butene-1 based polymers, marketed under the name Koattro. The resin is used to manufacture elastic applications including...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/plastics/polypropylene/15260.html
November 10, 2008
Ineos Shutters Two PP Units in the U.S.
Ineos Olefins & Polymers USA says it intends to shut down two polypropylene (PP) bulk phase units at La Porte, TX by early 2009. The closure represents approximately 520 million...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/plastics/polypropylene/15281.html
November 6, 2008
Koch's Flint Hills Unit to Shut Odessa Cracker and Polymers Production
Koch Industries' Flint Hills Resources unit will shut its Odessa, TX polymers facility during first-half 2009, and shift production to other plants. The site, acquired from Huntsman in...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/plastics/polypropylene/15192.html
October 21, 2008
Borouge Signs Contract for Logistics Hub in China
Borouge, an olefins and polyolefins joint venture between Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. (Adnoc) and Borealis, has signed a contract with Enpro Supply Chain Management (Shanghai) to build...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/plastics/polypropylene/14901.html
September 15, 2008
LyondellBasell Firms Up Trinidad PP Complex
LyondellBasell Industries has signed a project development agreement for a previously announced polypropylene (PP) manufacturing complex in Trinidad and Tobago. The company signed the...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/plastics/polypropylene/14187.html
September 15, 2008
Polypropylene: The Leader Board is Changing
The expected downturn in the global petrochemical industry will have a major impact on the polypropylene (PP) sector, analysts say. Huge capacity additions under way coupled with high...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/plastics/polypropylene/14197.html
September 8, 2008
LyondellBasell Confirms Kazakhstan Technologies
LyondellBasell has confirmed CW’s exclusive report that its polyolefin technologies have been selected for three plants to be built by Kazakhstan Petrochemical Industries (KPI...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/plastics/polypropylene/14041.html
September 8, 2008
LyondellBasell Signs Deal for Trinidad and Tobago Polypropylene Complex
LyondellBasell says it has signed a project development to evaluate the construction and operation of a fully integrated 490,000 ton/year polypropylene (PP) complex in Trinidad and...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/plastics/polypropylene/14105.html
August 25, 2008
… Starts Work on Tobolsk PP Project
Sibur has broken ground for a previously announced propane dehydrogenation and polypropylene (PP) complex at Tobolsk, Russia (CW, Jan.14, p. 17). The plant will...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/plastics/polypropylene/13785.html
August 22, 2008
LyondellBasell Confirms Technology Selection for Polyolefin Plants in Kazakhstan
LyondellBasell has confirmed CW's exclusive report that LyondellBasell's technologies have been selected for three polyolefin plants that will form part of a world-scale, integrated...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/plastics/polypropylene/13747.html
August 18, 2008
Ibn Rushd to Build Big PP Plant and Propane Dehydro Unit
Arabian Industrial Fibres Co. (Ibn Rushd; Yanbu, Saudi Arabia), an affiliate of Sabic, says it will build a 525,000-m.t./year polypropylene (PP) plant at Yanbu by 2012. The company has...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/plastics/polypropylene/13639.html
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